Finally confirmed as the CEO of Xandros, Andreas Typaldos: distrbución Linspire, which his company had purchased just a month ago, will cease to exist as the commercial product that met so far.

The announcement of Xandros said that it will use the free version of Linspire, Linspire, now based in Debian, as the precursor of its next distribution Xandros Desktop Professional, in a way very similar to what it does with Red Hat Fedora or their Opensuse with. Another part of its justification is that Xandros did not want to take your catalog multiple distributions paid, so Linspire of discarded in favor of their own.

Both the new Xandros and Linspire will be based on the next Debian GNU / Linux 5.0 "Lenny", Typaldos said that although some elements relatives of Linspire, as his client CNR probably be retained.

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